Ponferrada to Villafranca del Bierzo
We left our hotel around 9:30 am. We got a later start than usual as we knew it would be raining. We had breakfast and coffee in the hotel and waited for the rain to stop. Rain was forecast all morning, so we started the Camino and assumed we may need to wait out additional rain in a cafe. We walked about two and half miles to Compostilla and stopped and had a couple shots of espresso.
The Camino was mostly flat today. There were some gradual hills that we climbed and then descended, and we passed a number of vineyards. With cloudy skies and cool weather, it feels like fall. Even some of the trees and vines are changing color and apples have fallen from the trees.
We stopped for lunch in a village called Cacabelos. We ordered a salad, a calzone, and a couple of beers. We waited quite a while for the calzone. The server came out and explained in Spanish there was an issue. I didn’t understand anything she said, so I pulled out Google Translate and asked her to say it again. Google Translate told me, “Pablo stayed in his pants and you have to wait a little bit because to be another one again.” Uh…what? Good job, Google Translate. But we waited about 10 more minutes more and got our Calzone. It was good, and I’m glad Pablo stayed in his pants.
Today’s leg was officially 15 miles but the the GPS said we walked 17. We went off the Camino a couple of times during the rain looking for coffee, Jim did some backtracking, and our hotel in our destination town, Villafranca del Bierzo, was further from the center of the village. But we had a good day and our hotel has a washer and dryer. Score!
When we started the Camino in St Jean Pied de Port, Santiago de Compostella was 790 Km away. Today we have less than 200 Km left!
Tomorrow we head to O Cebreiro.
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AuthorsGreg and James live in Pleasanton in Northern California and are on a pilgrimage on the Camino De Santiago in Spain. Their adventures are captured in this blog. Archives
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